Information management system
AssigneeTeltech Resource Network Corporation
InventorWilliam K. Thomson
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Abstract
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large (gigabytes) domains of archived textual dam. The system includes multiple query generation processes, a search process, and a presentation of search results that is sorted by category or type and that may be customized based on the professional discipline (or analogous personal characteristic of the user), thereby reducing the amount of time and cost required to retrieve relevant results.
Claims22
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large domain archived data of various types comprising:
- means for storing a large domain of data contained in multiple source records, at least some of the source records being comprised of individual documents of multiple document types;
- means for searching at least a substantial portion of such data based on a search query to identify documents of multiple types responsive to the query;
- and
- means for categorizing documents responsive to the query based on document type, including means for generating a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query which fall within various predetermined categories of document types.
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large domain archived data of various types comprising:
- means for storing a large domain of data contained in multiple document types;
- means for searching at least a portion of such data based on a search query to identify documents of multiple document types responsive to the query;
- and
- means for categorizing documents responsive to the query based on document type, including means for generating a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query which fall within various predetermined categories of document types.
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large domain archived data of various types comprising:
- means for storing a large domain of data contained in multiple source records, at least some of the source records being comprised of individual documents of multiple document types;
- means for searching at least a substantial portion of such data based on a search query to identify documents of different document types responsive to the query;
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- means for categorizing documents responsive to the query based on document type and independently of the source record from which such documents were obtained, including means for generating a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query which fall within each of the document types.
A method of storing, searching and retrieving information for use with a large domain of archived data of various types comprising:
- storing in electronically retrievable form a large domain of data contained in documents obtained from multiple source records, at least some of the source records containing documents of multiple types;
- generating an electronically executable search query;
- electronically searching at least a portion of such data based on the query to identify documents of multiple document types responsive to the query;
- and
- sorting documents responsive to the query and presenting a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query by type of document independently of the source record from which such documents were obtained.
A method of storing, searching and retrieving information for use with a large domain of archived data of various types comprising:
- storing in electronically retrievable form a large domain of data contained in documents obtained from multiple source records, at least some of the source records containing documents of multiple types;
- defining one or more sets of categories of document types, each category corresponding to one or more document types;
- generating an electronically executable search query;
- electronically searching at least a portion of such data based on the query to identify documents of multiple document types responsive to the query;
- selecting one of the sets of categories for use in presenting a summary of the results of the search;
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- sorting documents responsive to the query by document type and, utilizing the selected set of categories, presenting a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query which fall within each category in the selected set of categories.
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large domain archived data of various types comprising:
- means for storing a large domain of data contained in multiple source records, at least some of the source records being comprised of individual documents of multiple document types;
- means for searching at least a substantial portion of such data based on a search query to identify documents of multiple types responsive to the query;
- and
- means for categorizing documents responsive to the query based on document type, including a plurality of predetermined sets of categories of document types, at least one of the categories in at least one of the sets corresponding to more than one document type, and means for generating a summary of the number of documents responsive to the query which fall within the various categories of one of such predetermined sets of categories.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.